===CUT===The Delta Division Director's update this morning addressed LOTW. Here is part of what Dave, K5UZ had to say. Hopefully you are getting the same news from your representatives.

"At last week's Administration and Finance Committeemeeting, staff was authorized to replace the old magnetic drives withfaster digital units. The change-over and upgrade will take a fewweeks as staff wants to 1.)keep the old units for back-up data and 2.)Allow for systems testing and comparison. This process should takeapproximately eight weeks; therefore I now pose the question: Isn'tit time for a software upgrade to go along with the new LOTW hardware? Please let your Director know what you think on this issue as itcertainly is an opportune time to get this fine membership serviceadjusted and running the way it should!" ===CUT===

I don't even know who my director is and that's partly my fault, but the ARRL has a massive database and communicating with constituents should not be a big problem. I get an ARRL letter every week via Email. Why can't my director get the Email addresses for his/her constituents from the ARRL and send emails when appropriate? Should we really be chasing them, or is it their job to inform us members? I don't believe I have ever received an Email from my director. That's why I was so surprised to see an Email from a director which admits they need to make some investments and spend some money. Where are the Emails from the other directors?

When my brother ran for State Representative in 2008 I typed in the zip codes on QRZ for the communities his district represented and we mailed a letter to all those with amateur licenses which stated his brother (me) was an amateur radio operator and my brother was familiar with the problems facing our hobby. Nobody with an R next to their name won any elections up and down the East Coast that year so there is no telling if it helped or not.

I think what happens in most charitable organizations is the CEO runs the day-to-day operations and all the other non-paid positions just fall into line and don't rock the boat. What's needed in any non-profit organization are people who are not afraid to hold an opinion different from the manager's position and who are not afraid to let their differing opinions known.

Two days before Sweepstakes around November 15th I was about 5 or 6 days behind in my LoTW confirmations and I didn't think there was a snowball's chance in hell they'd clear out the Sweepstakes confirmations before they got hit with the CQWW uploads. To my surprise they did get out most of the SS confirmations but I think they had to play some games to do so. Maybe the SS files got moved to the front and the common files were delayed or lost.

The delay has actually got longer than before SS. It has now been 9 days since CQWW ended and I have yet to receive a confirmation for any QSO dated on the 26th or later.

What we really need is a Whistleblower (and I normally don't like them but this is not national defense we're talking about) to tell us what is actually going on.

Chris, most ARRL elected officials run unopposed. You're not exactly going to get the cream of the crop there.

We recently elected a new director here, who actually had to campaign and work for his seat. He's actually a good friend of mine - Mike, N2YBB. From what I know of him I think he'll do a good job. He's already reaching out.

In Hudson division we already were getting emails from our division reps though, so they communicate with us.

But I think that some of them in other divisions get elected in an uncontested race then sit and do nothing.

Chris, most ARRL elected officials run unopposed. You're not exactly going to get the cream of the crop there.

We recently elected a new director here, who actually had to campaign and work for his seat. He's actually a good friend of mine - Mike, N2YBB. From what I know of him I think he'll do a good job. He's already reaching out.

In Hudson division we already were getting emails from our division reps though, so they communicate with us.

But I think that some of them in other divisions get elected in an uncontested race then sit and do nothing.

Ryan, other than seeing K1ZZ's name on every editorial for as long as i can recall, I don't know beans about the politics of the ARRL or how it it governed.

I do know it is generally not a good thing if people run unopposed or hold a job for a very long period of time.

If your friend, Mike, had to fight for his position I have a feeling he's liable to take it more seriously than somebody who had no opposition.

I hope he does a good job for you guys and maybe he will want to play a bigger role someday.

Rather than going forward in time my confirmations are actually going backwards in time. I really think many of those smaller files were held back so the SS backlog could be taken care of before they got swamped with CQWW uploads.

Gene, I also received the QSL for ZK2C but that QSO was in February of this year.

Has anybody received a LoTW confirmation for a QSO after November 25th?

Has anybody received a LoTW confirmation for a QSO after November 25th?

73,

Chris/NU1O

I have one uploaded QSO that took place on the 26th that has been processed by LoTW (no QSL yet though): StationCall Sign K9AIMDXCC UNITED STATES OF AMERICAITU Zone 4Grid EM69txState INCounty BOONEWorked StationWorked ZF2AHDate/Time 2012-11-26 16:40:00Mode CW (CW)Band 12MFrequency 24.897Record ID 459597872 Received: 2012-12-04 02:05:38

===CUT===The Delta Division Director's update this morning addressed LOTW. Here is part of what Dave, K5UZ had to say. Hopefully you are getting the same news from your representatives.

"At last week's Administration and Finance Committeemeeting, staff was authorized to replace the old magnetic drives withfaster digital units. The change-over and upgrade will take a fewweeks as staff wants to 1.)keep the old units for back-up data and 2.)Allow for systems testing and comparison. This process should takeapproximately eight weeks; therefore I now pose the question: Isn'tit time for a software upgrade to go along with the new LOTW hardware? Please let your Director know what you think on this issue as itcertainly is an opportune time to get this fine membership serviceadjusted and running the way it should!" ===CUT===

I don't even know who my director is and that's partly my fault, but the ARRL has a massive database and communicating with constituents should not be a big problem. I get an ARRL letter every week via Email. Why can't my director get the Email addresses for his/her constituents from the ARRL and send emails when appropriate? Should we really be chasing them, or is it their job to inform us members? I don't believe I have ever received an Email from my director. That's why I was so surprised to see an Email from a director which admits they need to make some investments and spend some money. Where are the Emails from the other directors?

When my brother ran for State Representative in 2008 I typed in the zip codes on QRZ for the communities his district represented and we mailed a letter to all those with amateur licenses which stated his brother (me) was an amateur radio operator and my brother was familiar with the problems facing our hobby. Nobody with an R next to their name won any elections up and down the East Coast that year so there is no telling if it helped or not.

I think what happens in most charitable organizations is the CEO runs the day-to-day operations and all the other non-paid positions just fall into line and don't rock the boat. What's needed in any non-profit organization are people who are not afraid to hold an opinion different from the manager's position and who are not afraid to let their differing opinions known.

Two days before Sweepstakes around November 15th I was about 5 or 6 days behind in my LoTW confirmations and I didn't think there was a snowball's chance in hell they'd clear out the Sweepstakes confirmations before they got hit with the CQWW uploads. To my surprise they did get out most of the SS confirmations but I think they had to play some games to do so. Maybe the SS files got moved to the front and the common files were delayed or lost.

The delay has actually got longer than before SS. It has now been 9 days since CQWW ended and I have yet to receive a confirmation for any QSO dated on the 26th or later.

What we really need is a Whistleblower (and I normally don't like them but this is not national defense we're talking about) to tell us what is actually going on.

73,

Chris/NU1O

Dave Norris K5UZ is a fine gentleman and my club, the Magnolia DX Association helped to elect Dave as Director of the Delta Division... because we knew that Dave would stay engaged with the DX community as he is one of us. With K5UR Rick as Executive VP, the DX community will be in good hands for some time to come. I appreciate your kind words for Dave and I will forward your comments to him.

Has anybody received a LoTW confirmation for a QSO after November 25th?

My last confirmed QSO is on the 21st, of Nov... Odd, as I have a few in the stack, accepted by LoTW. I have been able to upload, and get confirms of the upload with the normal 3 to 4 day delay. However, as you noted, no QSO confirmations though...

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